Larry Ellison tomorrow will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission’s clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison’s webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission’s clearance of the deal.
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Why should PostgreSQL be a threat to Oracle? MySQL has never been a threat to Oracle anyway. 99% of the MySQL users are just looking for a database to store data, they don’t buy support, they don’t need any company in control of the software.
And if they don’t like PostgreSQL, they might take a look at Firebird, CouchDB or another tool. There is so much more out there, MySQL is just one of many.
Roberto Galoppini and 
Frank are discussing.
magomarcelo 1:50 am on January 27, 2010 Permalink
I wonder why all the debate has been on MySQL and not even a word was spent on Java open-ness and its specs being governed by the JCP which is not really an independent foundation like Mozilla, but has Sun/Oracle in advantage on all other parties – to me that is a much more valuable common asset to protect than MySQL – let’s see what will be announced…
Roberto Galoppini 8:17 am on January 27, 2010 Permalink
Actually O’ Reilly Community along with Java World and InternetNews were the first to question, others like James Governor keep spending some words on this subject. As a matter of fact the EU didn’t raise any issue about Java, though.